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Writing to the printerport
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What kind of data do you want to send to the printer?
If you are writing a classic Winapp you can use the standard windows way to write to the printer, but i figure that you already knew that...
If you want direct access to the printer port, you might have to use the windows DDK... Are you writing a driver for a printer?
What functions did u use?
If using OpenPrinter, be sure to specify the DesiredAccess member of the PRINTER_DEFAULTS structure to the things you need (eg PRINTER_ACCESS_ADMINISTER...)
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If you are writing a classic Winapp you can use the standard windows way to write to the printer, but i figure that you already knew that...
If you want direct access to the printer port, you might have to use the windows DDK... Are you writing a driver for a printer?
What functions did u use?
If using OpenPrinter, be sure to specify the DesiredAccess member of the PRINTER_DEFAULTS structure to the things you need (eg PRINTER_ACCESS_ADMINISTER...)
[red]Nosferatu[/red]
We are what we eat...
There's no such thing as free meal...
once stated: methane@personal.ro
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Hi!
I'm not writing a printer driver. I have a small microproccessor controlling a mixer, that I want to be able to send commands to.
The communication with the processor is very simple.
All I would need to do is to write binary values to the printerport. Right now the mixer is controlled from a DOS program, but for obvious reasons I would like to use a windows program instead.
I tried to use the function _outp to do this, but in win 2000 this gives me an access violation.
/Peter
I'm not writing a printer driver. I have a small microproccessor controlling a mixer, that I want to be able to send commands to.
The communication with the processor is very simple.
All I would need to do is to write binary values to the printerport. Right now the mixer is controlled from a DOS program, but for obvious reasons I would like to use a windows program instead.
I tried to use the function _outp to do this, but in win 2000 this gives me an access violation.
/Peter
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